English Dictionary

paradox

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpæɹ.əˌdɒks/

名詞

廃用 不可算名詞

(pathology) is described as a free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. An embolus can be made up of solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).

日本語の意味

血管内において自由に浮遊し、ある部位から別の部位へ移動することができる塊。固体（血栓など）、液体（羊水など）、または気体（空気など）のいずれかの状態で存在する場合がある。

The radiologist identified a paradox in the main pulmonary artery that had traveled from the deep veins.

放射線科医は、深部静脈から移動して肺動脈主幹に存在する塞栓を確認した。

意味（1）

(pathology) is described as a free-floating mass, located inside blood vessels that can travel from one site in the blood stream to another. An embolus can be made up of solid (like a blood clot), liquid (like amniotic fluid), or gas (like air).

意味（2）

(medicine) is an effect of a chemical substance such as a medical drug, that is opposite to what would usually be expected. An example of a paradoxical reaction is pain caused by a pain relief medication.

意味（3）

An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.

This sentence is false is a paradox.

意味（4）

A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.

It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.

意味（5）

A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.

Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.

意味（6）

A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.

意味（7）

A person or thing having contradictory properties.

He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.

意味（8）

An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.

And only by dismantling our preconceptions of age can we be free to understand the paradox: How young are the old?

意味（9）

(obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.

Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner / transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the / force of honesty can translate beauty into his / likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the / time gives it proof.

意味（10）

(uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.

The need for paradox is no doubt rooted deep in the very nature of the use we make of language.

意味（11）

(uncountable, philosophy) A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.

Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox.

意味（12）

(uncountable, psychotherapy) The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.

Defiance-based paradox is employed so that the family will actively oppose and deliberately sabotage the prescription.

paradoxes （ plural ）